Judith said:
It could work. People hate to be tarred with the same brush. "We know you
rebel
types - you're all a load of paedophiles. Civil liberties? Hah! We know
what
you're really after."
I also wonder whether choosing that charge to fabricate had something to do with "something unfriendly" that the Federation does to convicted sex offenders.
Tel VAron interviewed the children himself, didn't he? If he could, then
others
obviously could, so I'd guess there would be some form of media coverage.
But the system could just as easily have been set up to give the defense no access to the prosecution witnesses--or for there to be nominal access, except something always happened before the scheduled appointment...
-(Y)